Afterword: Bringing The Horror Back Home – Stephen Jones
The Pan Book Of Horror Stories: Index to Vol.1 – 30.

An incredibly safe collection, but other than F. Paul Wilson’s bizarre selection as his pick from the series, there’s nothing remotely bad in here. Bar Gallagher, Campbell, McCammon and Hutson, the rest have opted for stories that give you no idea what the series is like. Chances are, if you own three or four “Classic Horror” style collections, you’ll already have half of these. The book is dedicated to the late Rosemary Timperley, but not one woman gets a look in. Alex White, Elizabeth Walter, Dorothy K. Haynes and Timperley were regular contributors of fine stories and had far more to do with the series than, say, Stephen King, whose contributions had already been published extensively long before Pan picked them up.